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(No Model.)

J. WHITE.

BALE TIE. No. 298,645. Patented May 13, 1884.

WITNESSES lllnirrnn @TATES PAT NT tries.

JOSEPH \VHITE, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE TYLER lBALETIE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECEFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,645, dated May 13, 188%.

Application filed March 21, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, Josnrrr Wi-rr'rn, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and 5 useful Improvements in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in bale-tics, the object being to provide bale-ties with the ends bent in such sinuous lines that when passed the one end around the other the bends will interlock and prevent the wires from drawing apart endwise, and thus securing the bale-tie. A further object is to provide a bale-tie that may be more or less adjusted in length to suit the sizes of the bales.

WVith these objects in view my invention consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 show my improved bale-ties, the latter 2 5 being preferable. Figs. 3. and 4 show preferable forms in which the wires may be bent near the ends to form the interlocking part.

The essential feature of my invention consists in preparing wires of suitable lengths 0 with the ends shaped in a succession of similar sinuous curves or bends, as'will readily interlock when the two ends are passed around each other, and at the same time make the tie adjustable in length. The forms shown, re- 5 spectively, in Figs. 3 and 4 have proved entirely satisfactory for the purpose but doubtless many other forms would be equally effective. The wire of commerce is usually in large coils, and these are placed on reels and drawn 40 off, straightened, and cut in suitable length, and the crimping or bending the ends in the forms aforesaid is done simultaneously with the cutting and straightening, so that no extra expense is incurred in preparing the locking device. The ends are crimped, usually, from siX to eight inches in length, more or less, according to the amount of adjusting in length that is required to accommodate the tie to different-sized bales. As is well known, the ties, when placed around the bales, are go quite loose and after the pressure is removed 1* the expansion of the bale draws the wire taut. The ends of the wire are therefore lapped by each other, more or less, as may be required,

to make the tie of suitable length for the bale, and the ends passed two or three times around each other. By reason of the clasticity and recoil of the wire, the bends interlock and draw together, so that if the locking occurs at but two or three points the tie will hold all that the tensile strength of the wire will sustain.

Of the various ties heretofore in use many of them were locked by various complicated loops or tongues that are not convenient to 6 place in position, and render the tie unadjustable in length. Of those that are adj ustable in length the construction is usually such that a tongue or double end is passed through a loop and bent back and twisted around and in a manner that requires considerable time, and the work of bending is severe on the hands of the operator. Vith my improved tie no time is lost in passing one end through the loop. In Fig. 1 is shown a manner of thus securing a tie; but it is not recommended, as there is nothing gained by such construction. On the left hand in Fig. 1, however, is shown how the wires interlock, when preferred, in the form shown in Fig.

These ties are simple, cheap, and effective, and may be secured or interlocked with ease and dispatch.

I am aware that it is'not new to twist the opposite ends of a bale-band made of strip metal into continuous spirals and then secure the ends by interlocking the spirals,and hence I make no claim thereto. My tie is made of wire, and, instead of bending the ends into continuous spirals, I form the ends in a suco cession of bends similar to that shown in Fig.

2, and when the two ends are joined, the bends register and form a perfect lock. The wire is more easily manipulated than the strip metal, and hence less time is occupiedin making 9 5 the union.

What I claim is In testimony whereof I sign this specifica- A bale-tie with ends provided with a suction, in the presence of two Witnesses, this 15th cession of similar curves or bends adapted to day of March, 1884.

interlock when twisted or passed around each JOSEPH \VHITE. 5 other, and adapted to be reduced in length by Witnesses: v

more or less overlapping the ends, substan- ALBERT E. LYNCH,

tially as set forth. CHAS. H. DORER. 

